Minimum wage to increase by 7% in 2017

[caption id="attachment_19629" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The 7% wage increase is welcome, but may not have much of an impact on living...

Rafael Uribe Noguera trial to begin this month

[caption id="attachment_19458" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The funeral of Yuliana was accompanied by a strong police presence.[/caption] The...

Spanish tongue twisters: Tres tristes tigres

Tangle and torment your tongue with Diana Mejía’s tongue twisters. Trabalenguas, as the name implies, will get your tongue stuck trying to...

Spanish diminutives and augmentatives

[caption id="attachment_18757" align="aligncenter" width="960"] How cute its this gatito?[/caption] Diana Mejía tells us how to transform words...

COP$5 trillion to get city moving

[caption id="attachment_17405" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Part of Mayor Peñalosa's city deployment plan is an upgrade to the TransMilenio...

Who’s in the new cabinet?

On April 25, the new Santos cabinet was announced – changes the president said responded to the needs of this particular moment in history. The...

100 days of Peñalosa

[caption id="attachment_14928" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Mayor Peñalosa has been in office for 100 days. How has he faired?[/caption] As...

Humedales: to build or protect?

[caption id="attachment_10063" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Part of the Van der Hammen reserve, with developments visible in the...

What’s in store for Bogotá in 2016?

[caption id="attachment_9425" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The curtain goes up from March 11 on the Festival Iberoamericano de...